One team turns a glowing tube of epoxy into a prototype for the next generation of lava lamps. Another rewires a Home Depot doorbell to send tweets, rather than ring. A third team wants to use Xbox to create a virtual dance floor.

And so it goes, at Providence's first-ever hardware hackathon, wherein dozens of geeks mash hardware (like a doorbell) and software (Twitter) into all manner of outlandish contraptions.

Full Story: At the Hardware Hackathon: the Kegerator goes digital Source: Providence Phoenix, February 3rd, 2012 Author: Stephen Beale Added on February 3rd, 2012 at 8:37 am, by Muse en Lystrala